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(Model.)

P. MILES.

d CLOTHES HOOK. 110. 280,062. Patented June 26,1883..4

Inventor:

UNITED STATES PATENT risicaG A,

PURCHES MILES, OF'BRO'OKLYN, NEWT YORK.

CLOTH ES-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 280,062, dated June 26,1833,

Application filed December 12, 1881.v (Model.)

' To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PURcHE's MILES, a citizen of the Unitedl States,residing at No. 202 Skillman Street, Brooklyn, New York, have invented anew and useful Double Hook or Supporting Device, (for which I haveobtained no foreign patent,) of which theffollowing is a specification.i

My invention relates to improvements upon the invention shownin theLetters Patent of the United States No. 225,942, granted to me March 30,1880, and also upon the invention shown in another application filed onthe same i day herewith; and the objects of my present invention are,rst, to do away with the bracket-plate; second, to supply cheaperandbetter substitutes to perform the functions of the bracket-plate and thescrews, whereby the screw may be made continuous with `or an integralpart of the hook, and still the hook may be screwed down to a properbearing, with the hook standing in the proper vertical plane; third, tocheapen the cost of manufacture 5 and, fourth, to provide a portablehook. p

As hooks have hitherto been made, whether made of cast metal orotherwise, in which the screw is made an integral part of the hook,'so

as to permit the putting up of the same without the use of loose orindependent screws, it has been found difficult, if not impossible, tobring the base, shoulder, or bearing part'of the hook down solid uponthe wall or strip, with the arm or arms of the hook in the proper vertical plane. .v In such hooks repeated attempts will almost invariblyfail to bring the base down with the solidity required to aid or relievethe screw in supporting its burden, with' the body of the hook in theproper plane, and without stripping the thread formed in the wood. `Suchhooks meet with little favor in tlie trade, although cheaply madeandsold.- I avoid these objections by placing a springbearing in such'relations to the hook, the

j screw, and the wall or strip that the screw may be turned, either insoft or in hard wood, after the spring-bearing strikes, far enough tobring the body of the hook into the vertical plane and obtain propersupporting-bearing to aid or relieve the cross-strain upon the screw,and without stripping the thread in the wood. In some instances morethan one turn may be necessary, in others less7 according to purpose.

circumstances. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated intheaccompanying drawings, in which similar letters referto similarparts, and Figure l. is a side view of the hook; Fig. 2, a front view;Fig. 3, a side view of the hook in place; Fig. 4, a modification.

The part marked A in thedlrawings represents the entire hook, and iscomposed of one continuous piece of wire, preferably steel, bentsubstantially in the form shown, and having the following elements, viz:iirst, a long arm or hook, a,- second, a short arm or hook, af,- third,the connecting extension c between the long and the short arm; fourth,the return extension c', and fth, the eye h and thev screw-point s. Thelong arm a, is composed of the two branches b and the brace b', formedby looping the wire or bendingit back on itself at the loop Z. The shortarm a/'is composed of the two branches b2 and the brace b3, formed lthereby obtaining a spring action from theV loop Z along the brace b3and the extension c to the eye 71. The purpose of this is' to give aspring-bearing for the hook upon the extension c when the screw isproperly forced into the wood, as shown in Fig. 3. The extension e,

as well as the extension e, is yielding and not rigid. This yieldingquality comes into play both in attaching the hooks and in their use ashooks.' The eye hl of course is large enough to have free motion uponthe branch bfor this The screw may be put upon the end of the extensionc', turned down for that purpose, and the eye h may be put on the end ofthe branch b, therebyreversing or exchanging the positions of theseparts; but this might sacrifice the spring .action and would make aninferior hook. The function of the eye h is to give a bearing for thehook when the screw s is forced into the wood. Being made yielding, andnot firm, like a solid shoulder on the roo branch b, it will give andallow the screw to be forced home, with the short hook directly underthe longer one, without difficulty and without wearing the surface ofthe wood, the eye 7L giving a triiie for that purpose, as shown indotted lines in Fig. 1. The eye 7L is, in fact, a yielding collar aroundthe branch. b, and assists the short or lower hook in supporting itsburden, since it grasps the 'branch b close up to the wood, where it islea-st liable to bend it 5 and the roughencd rear side of the yieldingbearing, as shown in the drawings, also assists in supporting theburden, especially where the wood is soft, and where the roughenedsurface or its projecting parts are driven into the wood by a blow afterthe hook is in place. The same feature aids in resisting any tendency ofthe hook to turn because of its having only one point or screwattachment. In the absence of the eye h the yielding extension e willperform the same office, and whether the eye h be present or absent, theextension e gives the elastic bearing for the hook, both in putting thehook up and in practical use of the same.

Instead of wire, strips'of sheet metal may be use, and formedsubstantially in the same `1nann er. In this invention, as compared withthat shown in a simultaneous application, the first bend of the branch bis omitted and the last bend of the brace b is reversed, the brace beingextended under the extension e. This hook, provided with agimlet-pointed screw, may be readily'put up without the use of othertools, and as readily taken down, when desiredas in moving, &c.-and itis adapted for use as a clothes or wardrobe hook, or as a bird-cagehook, or as a harness-hook, Src., by making suitable changes in thedimensions of the parts.

II do not desire to coniine myself to continuous wire or strips of sheetmetal or bars, since it isevident that when two or more pieces may beused in substantially the same forma` tion they may be secured togetherso as to act in substantially the same way.

When it is desired for any reasonas where there is not room to turn thewhole hook-I modify the construction, as shown in Fig. 4,

yby cutting the branch b at its forward part,

forming its end so made into an eye, h', turned around the branch .7)and acting as a collar, in which that branch rests, and may be turned bymeans ofthe loop Z as a thumb-piece to operate the screw without turningthe rest of the hook. A sharp point may be substituted for the screw s;but I prefer the screw.

A portion of the subject-matter of the original application hereinhaving been withdrawn and embraced in a subsequent application, SerialNo. 69,421, filed .August l5, 1882, Ihereby disclaim the same as to thisapplication to the extent setforth in the new application, and anyLetters Patent to be granted therein.

I claim as my inventionl. A double hook composed of the followingelements: the arm a., consisting of the branch b and brace b', the arma', consisting ofthe branch b2 and brace b3, the yielding extensions eand e', Ithe eye h, and the screw s.

2. A double hook composed of the following elements: the arm a,consisting of the branch b and brace b', the arm a', consisting of thebranch bZ and brace b", the yielding extensions e and c, the eye l1, andthe screw s, the wire having the bends c c'2 and the bend c reversed,andthe loops Z and Z, or their equivalents, as shown and described.

3. A suspending device, A, consisting of the upper and lower hooks, aand a, as shown, provided with attaching devices consisting oi' thescrew s and yielding bearing e.

PUBS/HES MILES.

Witnesses:

JAMns A. SKU/ron, SAMUEL H. Momenti..

